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Alessandra Rellini |
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Clinical Training Program
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| Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2007 |
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John Dewey Hall Room 332
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(802) 656-4110
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alessandra.rellini@uvm.edu
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Board of Directors, International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health
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Areas
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My laboratory focuses on the study of sexual function and dysfunction in men and women. We have a state of the art psychophysiological equipment to assess genital engorgement, heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance and behavioral responses during audio and visual stimuli. My students and I are currently investigating a number of topics, including the following:
- The effect of emotional states on the sexual response.
- Emotion regulation and sexual behavior/functioning in young adults.
- Predictors of sexual revictimization in adults with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
- The mediational effects of estrogen and androgens levels on sexual desire in women taking different types of hormonal contraception.
- Natural changes in catecholamines following different stages of love and the effects these have on female sexual responses.
- Cortisol responses to sexual stimuli in women with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
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Our studies are conducted in the spirit of translational science, meaning that results from these basic science studies are integrated into treatments. Currently, my laboratory is working on the development of two treatments, one targeting women with female sexual arousal disorder and a second treatment specifically for the sexual dysfunction of women with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
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Room 241 John Dewey Hall
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The focus of the Sexual Health Research Clinic is women?s sexual function and dysfunction. We embrace an interdisciplinary approach that combines psychophysiology, endocrinology, cognitive and clinical outcome studies to better understand the multifaceted nature of sexuality. All studies conducted in the clinic are designed in the spirit of "translational research", meaning that we commit to study aspects of sexual health for the development and testing of treatments that we intend to disseminate in the community.
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Accepting Students Fall 2010
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Representative Publications
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- Rellini, A. H., & Meston, C. M. (2007). Sexual desire and linguistic analysis: A comparison of sexually abused and non-abused women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36, 67-77.
- Rellini, A. H., & Meston, C. M. (2006). The sensitivity of event logs, self-administered questionnaires and photoplethysmography to detect treatment-induced changes in FSAD diagnosis. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 3, 283-291.
- Rellini, A. H., & Meston, C. M. (2006). Psychophysiological sexual arousal in women with a history of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Marital & Sex Therapy, 32, 1-18.
- Meston, C. M., Rellini, A. H., & Heiman, J. (2006). Women with a history of childhood sexual abuse, their sexuality, and sexual self-schemas. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 229-236.
- Rellini, A. H. (2006). Psychological factors of sexual abuse on women's sexual functioning. In: Goldstein, Meston, Davis, & Traish (Eds.), Women Sexual Function and Dysfunction, pp. 98 -104.
- Rellini, A. H., McCall, K. M., Randall, P. K., & Meston, C. M. (2005). The relationship between women's subjective and physiological sexual arousal. Psychophysiology, 42, 116-124.
- Rellini, A. H., Nappi, R. E., Vaccaro, P., Ferdeghini, F., Abbiati, I., & Meston, C. M. (2005). Validation of the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire (MFSQ) in an Italian sample. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 641-648.
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